Collage + Assemblage Projects

Two sets of works created from April 2020 onward, using cardboard, paper, pencil & paint. These collage and assemblage works were initially made whilst under the Coronavirus lockdown, but the series will continue. Selected pieces from the series are for sale online.

This method of working offers a different physicality; tearing and stripping back reveals layers and boundaries. The physicality of application, scraping back, erasing and forming is at once reductive, additive and organic in nature. Previously discarded materials are combined here with other media to create new possibilities and perspectives. These works create a new dialogue and push the boundaries of traditional art making. This process is a place of subconscious contemplation; these intimate pieces capture moments of beauty that are imperfect, impermanent and incomplete.

Assemblage Works

Collages

This project is a self directed period of artistic development and experimentation working on notions of landscape painting, using JMW Turner’s painting Melrose (1831) as a literal and metaphorical anchor point. The starting point for this project is the physical and geographical link with Turner and the Scottish Borders.

Preliminary Studies | Mixed media on cardboard files (2018)

Preliminary Studies | Sketchbooks (2018–2019)

Commissioned Paintings

St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales

In early summer of 2018 Lynda was approached by an international architecture & design firm which funds a trust developing historical properties around the area of St Davids in South Wales. The organization was in the process of developing and extending a hotel and in the process of adding original artworks to their extensive collection. The remit for the commission was broad but central to its theme was for the artists to be inspired by the geography, geology, historical settlements, architecture, headlands, coastal cliffs, mythology and the magnificent cathedral of St Davids.

Lynda spent time in the area and embarked upon research and field trips in mid-2018. Early morning mists and diffused light influenced her palette, just as the inland heat-haze and intense afternoon sunlight over the coast heightened her use of colour and emboldened her gestures.

Five days were spent exploring, absorbing, walking, looking, seeing, taking photographs, sketching, interpreting the terrain. Lynda walked to Solva, St Davids Head and explored various coves and historical sites around the area. Once back in the studio in Melrose (Scottish Borders) a period of reflection ensued with the attendant feelings and memories being allowed to percolate and develop into the below paintings. These paintings are reflective of the artist’s physical and emotional experience in the ancient landscape of St Davids.

Small scale works and miniatures

This section shows a selection of small works created in recent years. Many of these are part of ongoing projects. Please email Lynda for full details on each piece. Works are in acrylics & oils, mostly on panel and often framed.

Drawing

This page presents selected drawings and studies: created using pencil, pastel, charcoal, ink and watercolour. Please email for further information or sales.